# Surprises coming for voters for the Leopards-Eating-Faces Party **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Tags:** trump\ **Created:** [November 12, 2024, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166 "2024-11-12T19:54:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 46
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/901 "2025-01-01T18:50:12Z")
> **[Pornhub already bans users in 14 states. Florida joins that list in 2025](https://floridapolitics.com/archives/713307-pornhub-already-bans-users-in-14-states-florida-joins-that-list-in-2025/)** > > The company says age verification rules going into effect in January expose publishers and users to unfair security risks. ‘I didn’t think the law would make me lose _my_ porn!’ ETA: The following states are also blocked: Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Nebraska, Montana, Texas, North Carolina, Utah, Virginia, Louisiana, Arkansas, and Mississippi. Tennessee and South Carolina will also be blocked. ---
**Author:** ![Ann\_Hedonia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ann_hedonia/32/319_2.png) [@Ann\_Hedonia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ann_Hedonia)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/902 "2025-01-01T19:23:59Z")
A company I used to work for as an independent contractor had a waiting period for insurance, and they insisted that it was not their choice, that their _insurer_ required the waiting period. This was a very small company…….probably around 20 employees and I’m sure they had an unusually high claim rate, due to several of the higher up employees having serious health problems. I know that it seemed like the insurance company was always coming in and auditing their payroll, I got thrown off their policy after one such audit because as an independent contractor I had formed a corporation. (The company had assured me this change would not affect my insurance but they were wrong.) I’m not sure I believed them about the waiting period, but given the scrutiny they gave us it seems plausible. ---
**Author:** ![Sherrerd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sherrerd/32/8_2.png) [@Sherrerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sherrerd)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/903 "2025-01-01T21:49:16Z")
> [@Ann\_Hedonia](#): > > I’m not sure I believed them about the waiting period Imagine a world in which all this information was transparently available. ---
**Author:** ![BlankSlate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blankslate/32/80_2.png) [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/904 "2025-01-01T22:36:00Z")
Wow, with no other porn available online I guess those people will be buying magazines and dvds in the new year. ---
**Author:** ![JacobSwan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@JacobSwan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JacobSwan)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/905 "2025-01-01T23:10:09Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > I guess those people will be buying magazines Does it still grow in hedges like it did in the 70’s and 80’s? Or was hedge porn just a UK thing? ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/906 "2025-01-01T23:12:37Z")
Wait! There was Porn online??? Why wasn’t I notified? ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2025, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/907 "2025-01-01T23:23:15Z")
> [@OldOlds](#): > > So there’s this > > [Tesla replaces laid-off U.S. workers with foreigners using visas pushed by Musk: report](https://www.rawstory.com/tesla-h1b-visas-elon-musk/) Of course he did this - H-1B workers are, in a sense, indentured servants. They can’t just up and go elsewhere if Musk treats them like shit, they have to either stay at the place that hired them or go back home. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Greenjeans](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mr.greenjeans/32/551_2.png) [@Mr.Greenjeans](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Greenjeans)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/908 "2025-01-02T18:51:51Z")
> [@BlankSlate](#): > > Wow, with no other porn available online I guess those people will be buying magazines and dvds in the new year. Stay tuned for Trump’s next business venture: Porn magazines and DVDs. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 7:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/909 "2025-01-02T19:15:49Z")
> [@Mr.Greenjeans](#): > > Trump’s next business venture: Porn magazines and DVDs When that happens I’ll be master of my domain. ---
**Author:** ![Buck\_Godot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/buck_godot/32/6573_2.png) [@Buck\_Godot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Buck_Godot)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/910 "2025-01-02T20:00:02Z")
nice one 😆 ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [January 2, 2025, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/911 "2025-01-02T23:20:35Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > ‘I didn’t think the law would make me lose _my_ porn!’ I just saw an article about VPN usage skyrocketing in FL and other states. Also, warning phone users not to get scammy free VPNs to get to access their porn. 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 12:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/912 "2025-01-03T00:00:34Z")
Late this afternoon I was in a groc store in a working class neighborhood. Lotta Social Security recipients with little more to rely on. And lots of hard working low-wage folks with little to show for it. Real Americans IOW. All ethnicities and immigration sources are well represented. The legit salt of the earth mostly, but rather few rocket surgeons. As I’m walking out to my car I see a 20 yo rageddy mini-SUV w the hood up. 60ish raggedy white dude in worn work clothes is pouring stop-leak into his radiator. The whole ass end of the car is festooned w trump / MAGA stickers. Probably a dozen total. He’s wearing a MAGA hat. The car has two mini (~8x10") American flags flying from each back door. I’m not stereotyping; he is. In spades. He pretty apparently voted trump and he’s gonna see his disability or SS gutted. And his cost of living raised with no increase in wages. If he gets any other government subsidy it’ll disappear. The corporations that are robbing him blind will be offered carte blanche to redouble their predations. But he’ll get a $40 tax cut that he’ll believe is thousands and by gum, Murrica will be great! Stupid shit. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/913 "2025-01-03T00:25:18Z")
> [@JacobSwan](#): > > Does it still grow in hedges like it did in the 70’s and 80’s? Or was hedge porn just a UK thing? In America its natural habitat was the woods. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/914 "2025-01-03T00:28:37Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > Late this afternoon I was in a groc store in a working class neighborhood. I went down to the corner market an hour or two ago. I didn’t buy any eggs, as they were $6.99/dozen (large). I’ll go to the supermarket tomorrow or sometime, and get jumbo eggs. I don’t know how much they are, but I’ll bet they’re a lot more than I paid a couple of weeks ago. What with the avian flu, I saw it coming. When Trump causes the price of eggs to climb higher, at least I’ll have the satisfaction of knowing I didn’t vote for him. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/915 "2025-01-03T01:00:47Z")
Hmm. Eggs were not on my list that visit so I did not check. I’ll make a stop tomorrow at my usual fat-cat locale, but regional mainstream chain, groc store & price some eggs. We shall see. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/916 "2025-01-03T01:05:11Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > In spades. It occurs to me the dude might take offense at that. Maybe he sees it as stereotyping in trumps. > [@LSLGuy](#): > > But he’ll get a $40 tax cut that he’ll believe is thousands and by gum, Murrica will be great! It’ll be great AGAIN!!!, don’t you Know, sir? ---
**Author:** ![Smapti](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smapti/32/17938_2.png) [@Smapti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smapti)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/917 "2025-01-03T01:32:45Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I went down to the corner market an hour or two ago. I didn’t buy any eggs, as they were $6.99/dozen (large). I’ll go to the supermarket tomorrow or sometime, and get jumbo eggs. I don’t know how much they are, but I’ll bet they’re a lot more than I paid a couple of weeks ago. Right now at my work, the rising prices have meant that the fancy eggs (brown/jumbo/organic/free range etc.) are now the same price as the normal eggs, so people are buying up our fancy eggs and leaving the regular ones mostly untouched. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/918 "2025-01-03T01:46:24Z")
Exactly the same thing I’m seeing. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/919 "2025-01-03T02:03:24Z")
Strangely, the jumbo eggs have cost slightly less than other eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Princhester](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/3e96dc/32.png) [@Princhester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Princhester)\ **Post date:** [January 3, 2025, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166/920 "2025-01-03T04:46:52Z")
> [@Sherrerd](#): > > Once people have a certain amount of money, they become obsessed by their rank on lists of who has the most money. I think you are making the classic error here of assuming that what you see is all there is. I know a few exceedingly wealthy people who absolutely could not give a shit about where they are on some list. They dress down, live in extremely comfortable but not showy houses, and drive only slightly fancy cars. Due to this, they have no profile and probably don’t inform your (or anyone else’s) view on how rich people behave. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=45) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/surprises-coming-for-voters-for-the-leopards-eating-faces-party/1010166.md?page=47)